Dissertation / PhD Thesis FZJ-2013-04358

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Stereoselective synthesis of vicinal diols with enzymatic cascade reactions



2013
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag Jülich
ISBN: 978-3-89336-911-9

Jülich : Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag, Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich. Reihe Schlüsseltechnologien / key technologies 73, XV, 177 S. () = Universität Düsseldorf, Diss., 2013

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Abstract: Alcohol dehydrogenases are of high interest for the stereoselective synthesis of building blocks with multi-chiral centres. They are implemented for single enzymatic reduction or oxidation steps or be part of synthetic enzymatic multi-step cascades for the production of industrially relevant chiral synthons. Although biotransformations with alcohol dehydrogenases are widespread, enzymes, which accept sterically demanding substrates, especially α-hydroxy ketones, are not common in nature. Therefore chemical methods for the synthesis of chiral 1,2-diols are still first choice. As a drawback, alcohol dehydrogenases require expensive nicotinamide cofactors such as NAD(H) or NADP(H) for their activity. Prices of these cofactors prevent their application in stoichiometric amounts and therefore regeneration of nicotinamide cofactors is an essential issue for biotechnological purposes. Therefore a co-substrate is required that is transformed to the respective co-product in equimolar amounts relative to the product. This co-product has to be separated from the product or must be removed $\textit{in situ}$, which decreases atom- and process economy. In this work the carboligation of two inexpensive aldehydes catalysed by ThDPdependent enzymes is combined with a subsequent reduction of the intermediately formed α-hydroxy ketone by alcohol dehydrogenases. Therefore, a suitable cofactor regeneration system with smart $\textit{in situ}$ co-product removal had to be developed in order to gain high eco-efficiency of the synthetic enzyme cascade. To achieve the aim, the following work packages were addressed: 1. Investigation of the substrate range of eight available alcohol dehydrogenases with focus on reduction of bulky-bulky α-hydroxy ketones; 2. Determination of the stereoselectivity of the first and the second step of the synthetic cascade; 3. Selection of the most promising enzyme(s) for the reduction of α-hydroxy ketones (which turned out to be the alcohol dehydrogenase from $\textit{Ralstonia}$ sp.) and its detailed biochemical characterisation with focus on the reduction of α-hydroxy ketones; 4. Evaluation of a suitable cofactor regeneration system (substrate-coupled and enzyme-coupled approach) for the enzymatic 2-step synthesis, where smart [...]

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Note: Universität Düsseldorf, Diss., 2013

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  1. Biotechnologie (IBG-1)
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  1. 899 - ohne Topic (POF2-899) (POF2-899)

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